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A tale of two tours
Tour de Madison or Tour de France? Let’s compare these epic bicycling events.
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Tour has repeat riders
SYRIA -- There will be many familiar faces Saturday at the 2012 Tour de Madison, an event that started with a simple idea by Plow and Hearth founder Peter Rice Sr. and his friends 25 years ago.
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Tour to feature two bands
SYRIA -- When you complete this year’s 25th anniversary Tour de Madison bicycle ride Saturday, the sweet sounds of two bands that feature Madison County members will be in the air at Graves Mountain Lodge. The acoustic trio Scuffletown, featuring singer/songwriter Marc Carraway of Madison County and multi-instrumentalists John Whitlow and Vaughan Mairs, both of Albemarle County, will perform their folk and blues songs post-ride on Graves Mountain Lodge's Sycamore Pavilion stage.
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Hundreds expected for tour
SYRIA -- The 2012 Tour de Madison is set for 8:30 a.m. this Saturday. It will both start and finish this year at Graves Mountain Lodge – in the area of the Sycamore Pavilion. This is the first time ever for a Syria start-to-finish for the event.
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Farmers market now open
MADISON -- Dozens packed the Young Farmers Ground livestock pavilion May 5 for the opening day of the 2012 edition of the Madison County Farmers Market. The event is set to continue 8 a.m.-noon Saturdays through September at its home off Fairground Road, just west of Madison Primary School.
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MC home to ex-FEMA official
WOLFTOWN -- He’s briefed many presidents flying to disaster areas. He’s helped build an orphanage in the remote mountains of China. But nothing gives him more pleasure than growing his tomatoes on his farm near Wolftown. Bill Tidball is donating 1,250 mostly heirloom tomato plants to the Madison County Lions Club for them to sell at Food Lion and Yoder’s Country Market 9 a.m.-5 p.m. this Saturday, April 28. A six-pack of tomato plants will go for $6.50. He grows them by seed and starts them in a greenhouse with a warming blanket and then moves them to a cold frame so the plants get acclimated to colder weather.
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Etlan pig farm recognized
ETLAN -- And this little piggy won an award at Landon Farm LLC near Etlan. Farmer Jennifer Sisney takes free range to a whole new level. Her pigs and piglets roam around looser than a worn-out elastic waist band on her 14 acres of property. Luckily, her neighbor is her mother.
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MC students' art on exhibit
MADISON -- Fourteen pieces of artwork from Madison County students, ranging from the grim reaper inked just by spelling out the word “grim” over and over again to colorful sunflowers created by a collaboration of students, were chosen to be recently displayed at Madison County Public Schools’ headquarters office off Fairground Road.
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Madison celebrates Easter
MADISON -- Piedmont Episcopal Church's pews filled with celebrants for the annual Madison community Easter sunrise service at 6:30 a.m. Sunday. Madison County Boy Scout Troop 116 Scoutmaster Colt Puryear used flint and rock to make a symbolic new fire outside the downtown Madison church to start things off. Then, the Rev. Lizabeth Smith used the fire to light the Paschal Candle and lead the procession of celebrants inside the church as the new day dawned.
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Madison Holy Week services
The Madison County Ministerial Association invites you to attend a community-wide sunrise Easter service 6:30 a.m. Sunday, April 8 at Piedmont Episcopal Church. They will begin outside with a lighting of the new fire and Pascal candle and continue the worship as they take the light of Christ into the church. The Rev. Patti “Pastor Patti” Covington, pastor of Hebron Lutheran Church, is the guest preacher. For information, call (540) 948-6787.
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Leprechaun Launch results announced
Leprechaun Launch results
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Support MPS playground plan
Unstructured, child-directed play has been proven to help kids develop physically, socially and cognitively, yet today’s kids have less time and fewer opportunities to play than any previous generation. The current kindergarten playground at MPS does not meet Head Start or ADA standards, leaving our county’s Head Start and special needs students with no options for outdoor play. A communitywide effort launched in 2011 to build a new playground that offers a safe place to play for all children who use it.
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Tulip fest this weekend
BRIGHTWOOD -- The beloved brightly-colored tulips at a Madison County organic tulip farm were confused this month by a string of days with unseasonable 70-degree-plus highs – they blossomed a full three weeks earlier than expected. The premature blossoming left owners Keriann and Jeroen Koeman scrambling to change the dates of the third annual festival before the blooms are gone. “The warmer it is, the faster they will go. You have got to come out and see them before they are gone,” urged Keriann Koeman. She added, “This year I don’t know how much past Easter we are going to make it.” The third annual festival now kicks off this Saturday, March 31. It continues April 1, April 7 and April 8 at the farm located at3320 Lillards Ford Road(Route 607) in Madison County’s Brightwood community. The festival hours on the weekends are 9 a.m.-6 p.m. The tulips are $1 a stem. Admission is free, but parking is $1 per car.
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Today's tunes: Raunch reigns
It is worth noting, as troubling as this is, that last year the top three pop songs on Billboard magazine’s list featured the F word in the chorus. And, again, it is mostly the females who have the potty-mouths.
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Library Follies a sell-out
MADISON -- A sell-out crowd packed Madison Presbterian Church's main meeting room Friday night for the third annual Madison Library-benefit Library Follies. It was the event's first-time selling out a full two weeks in advance, reported Nancy Demarest, a member of the board of directors of the Friends of the Library, which presents the event.
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Community garden's new year
OAK HILL -- The Madison Community Garden is entering its fourth season with a new name – it’s now called Yowell Community Garden in honor of one of its founders – Walter “Mayo” Yowell, who passed away in February. The late Madison agri-businessman left a legacy in his community by donating part of a four-acre site off U.S. 29 for a community garden. The community garden that is being renamed in his honor is at 3385 Seminole Trail Road (on the east side of U.S. 29) between Gibbs Road and Shelby Road.
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Order tour jerseys now
BRIGHTWOOD -- Planning is in full swing for the 25th annual Tour de Madison bike ride scheduled for 8:30 a.m. May 19. The planning committee reports it has been working hard to make this milestone year a special one.
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Obstacle race coming up
MADISON -- Malvern resident Valerie Miller is a busy mother of two, but she finds the time to help raise money for a new playground at Madison Primary School. The former athletic trainer is using her skills to volunteer for the Leprechaun Launch 5K obstacle race March 17 at the Hoover Ridge athletic fields behind Madison Primary School. The cost is $35 to participate in the 3.1 mile event and all the proceeds will go to building a new playground at the primary school. Children get in free. The children’s event begins at 8 a.m. and the estimated start time for the 5K is 8:30 a.m. Registration begins at 7 a.m.
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Madison-Greene-Orange artisan trail proposed
ROCHELLE - Madison, Greene and Orange arts boosters are forming what they call an artisan trail to increase tourism in the counties. What is an artisan trail you ask? By artisan, think beyond artists and onto anything handcrafted or locally grown, said Janine Jensen, owner of the Mad Arts store in Rochelle.
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Follies fun set to return
MADISON -- The third annual Madison County Library Friends of the Library’s Chili Dinner and Celebration is set for 5:30 p.m. Friday, March 23 at Madison Presbyterian Church. This year, organizers of the library-fund-raiser – also known as the Library Follies – will mark the library’s 75th anniversary by honoring the seven librarians who serve or have served the community’s library patrons over time.
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Madison's Got Talent videoclip
Click for a link to a videoclip of Madison Stoltz singing "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" at the Feb. 25 Madison's Got Talent show at Madison County High School.
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MC Relay goal: $55,000
Madison County Relay for Life recently kicked off its third annual event with all the above-mentioned party favors and more. The theme for this year’s Relay for Life that raises money to combat cancer and honor those lives that have been touched by cancer is “Celebrating Another Birthday.”
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Mad Arts to feature Kaplon
Malvern author Pat Allen Kaplon will be reading, answering questions about and signing her two books, “A Child Called Hope” and “Heart Poems,” 1-4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 18 at the Mad Arts store at 7353 Seminole Trail (U.S. 29) in Rochelle.
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Valentine's dance Saturday
This Valentine’s Day will be special for seniors of any married status: married, single, widow, widower, even the married person without a dance partner – let’s call them “widowees” – thanks to the Madison Senior Center. Despite a car accident that left her with a broken hip and pelvis, 80-year-old Lillian Tanner was able to dance the limbo at last year’s Valentine’s Day dance at Madison County Senior Center. “The music was great,” Tanner, a volunteer at the senior center, said.
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MC volunteer's passion is pets
Haywood resident Mary Moore embodies the expression, “Volunteers don’t get paid, not because they’re worthless, but because they are priceless.” Moore’s worth must be more than a trunk of rubies because she is a volunteer extraordinaire. You name the organization and she has a finger in it. Madison Emergency Services Association (MESA), Services to Abused Families (SAFE), Questers and the Madison County Animal Friends are a few of the organizations she currently volunteers for.
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